Review of Miranda Fricker's Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing. This book raises some very interesting (and useful) insights. Fricker's project is to "look at the negative space that is epistemic injustice." How is that manifest? "Structurally, members of some social groups are ill-understood, marginalized, reduced to unintelligibility through patterns of testimonial and hermeneutic injustice that often seem to be everyone's and no one's responsibility." Now, of course, epistemic injustice isn't something that needs only attach to groups we can see how it can characterize relations between individuals as well. And it helps us to understand that to "impose a point of view" isn't simply to dictate a certain set of facts, but rather to impose a way of seeing - which includes the way one seeing one's own experiences and even one's own self.
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